Αθεϊσμός

While I was reading something, I stumbled upon the following statement by Karl Marx:

I will wander godlike and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator [1],[2](emphasis mine).

This statement was quite a surprise to me, given Karl Marx’s beliefs. We all know that he opposed God, theology and religion. His other statement that religion is the “opium of the people” is very well known too. Since we hardly compare ourselves with something we detest and oppose and believe that it is a big lie and illusion, comparing himself to God and to the creator came as a surprise to me.

Many people, mostly atheists, deny the prophesies of the Bible. There are many arguments supporting the reality of the prophesies, amply presented by many able men. I will add one more, in the words of the illustrious Robert Dick Wilson. He writes:

Those who would adequately explain the prophetic movement must ac­count for at least three factors.

The psychological fact of the prophets’ con­viction that Cod had actually spoken to them;

the continuity of the move­ment, consisting of men who lived over a period of several hundred years, all believing that God had spoken to them and,

the teleological trend of the predictions (Messianic prophecy).

In all the nations of antiquity there is no real parallel to the prophetic movement (This last statement is corroborated by Professor R. K Harison who states: …the messianic concept of the Hebrews… has no proper counterpart in ancient Near Eastern culture.R. K. Harrison, Introduction to the Old Testament, p.480).

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In other words, if we accept that these men were mentally ill, we have to face a very bizarre fact. That the Hebrews and only them, produced mentally ill men, for a very long time, with the one and same conviction (that they were God’s spokesmen), and all of them proclaimed the same message.

That “fact” demands a lot of faith to believe it… Therefore, atheists are far from unbelievers…

No one knows enough to be an atheist. There is no logical ground for atheism. Atheism is logically impossible. The basis by which the atheist proclaims his faith is empty. He has no foundation, rationality, or epistemology for his denial of God.

The above diagrams illustrate this truth. The first diagram represents total knowledge of reality. It includes everything there is to know, it represents one hundred percent knowledge. The logical question we must ask is, “How much of this knowledge does the atheist possess?” Very little! Einstein said he knew less than half of one percent. Let us be generous and give the atheist two percent of total knowledge. The second diagram represents the knowledge of the atheist in relation to total knowledge of reality. The next logical question: “Is it possible for God to exist outside the knowledge the atheist possesses?” The answer, logically yes! Then how can the atheist say there is no God? He cannot logically say there is no God. Is it any wonder the Bible says, “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’” (Psalm 14:1 NIV)?

Recent surveys reveal a universe that consists primarily of something unknown. 70% of the density of matter in the universe occurs in the form of dark energy, while 26% is dark matter. Only 4% is ordinary matter that we know. This means that less that the one twentieth (1/20) consists of material which we have observed experimentally or described by the standard model of particle physics. For the remaining 96%, besides the aforementioned properties, nothing is known.